| Product |
Status/Availability |
Description |
| Impatica |
Renewed by ODL for period 1/01/08 through 12/31/08. |
Condenses and translates MS-Powerpoint for the Web. http://www.impatica.com.
Available for download inside MC Infonet in MyMC. Also available through Zenworks installation. |
| Course Genie |
Installed on DMS faculty computers; various ODL installations. |
Creates HTML files from MS-Word, from the simple to the complex; on-campus use only. http://www.wimba.com/products/coursegenie/ |
| Videoconferencing |
Purchased, installed and tested. Not available yet for academic use. |
New standards-based system; housed in at least one room on each campus. |
Streaming Media –
Annenberg: http://learner.org
Intelecom:
http://Intelecomonline.net
Dallas Telelearning: http://dallas.dcccd.edu/
CoastLine:
http://www.coastlearning.org/ |
No official status. Faculty can visit these Web sites and look for video content they might find useful in their courses. |
Audio/video content that can be provided entirely as a supplement to lectures, partially as reinforcement on various topics, and/or visual/auditory stimulus to those students whose dominant learning styles benefit from this form of content dissemination. |
| Planet WebCT |
current |
Tutorials for WebCT |
| Respondus |
current |
Testing system – used inside WebCT; Available for download inside MC Infonet in MyMC. |
| Smarthinking |
Previously considered, not adopted |
Online tutoring provided by external tutors. Highly recognized company that offers tutoring in most disciplines. |
| Elluminate |
Purchased. Site license for 50 concurrent users. |
A real-time virtual classroom environment designed for distance education and collaboration in academic institutions. Academic Edition can extend the physical boundaries of your traditional classroom or it can add live discussion and dynamic interaction to your asynchronous distance learning. http://www.elluminate.com/products.jsp |
| Merlot |
No need to purchase – faculty can use many of these resources for free. There is a partnership option which does cost money and which provides more benefits to faculty and MC (see the Web site). |
Multimedia educational resources (learning objects) for online teaching and learning.
WebCT Powerlink partner.
http://www.merlot.org
Membership is free and offers the following benefits:
| As a Member you can: |
| • Contribute learning materials |
| • Create a personal collection |
| • Develop a personal profile |
| • Share your online expertise |
| • Receive peer recognition |
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